Post on 20-Oct-2014
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Opening up access to UK transport data
David Mountaindavid.mountain@transportapi.com
transportapi.com@transportapi
Who we are
• Placr Ltd: SME based in Shoreditch– Dave Mountain, Jonathan Raper, Harry
Wood, Emer Coleman and Tom Ward
• Transport API:– Open transport data service– First round funding in 2013
What we do
• API endpoints for timetabled and live for bus and rail data
• 370K stop/stations with 50Gb live data• Journey planning: public and private• JSON, XML, HTML formats• Aggregation and integration• API authentication and monitoring
(3Scale)
Open data
• Part of the Open Data Institute startup program
• Campaigning for the release of transport data
• Aim to be a one-stop shop for UK transport data
• Easier for developers to integrate transport data into apps
• Innovation
Who’s using it?
TFLOverground
CityMapper
• London’s most popular travel app
• TransportAPI supplying the back end for rail data
Heathrow (May 2014)
Travel portal developed with ELGIN
UK TravelOptions
• 3D perspective of OSM • Display/search POIs• Tap thru to transport
info• Tube performance
indicators• iOS / iPad
2013 growth
How to get itSign up for an account a transportapi.com
1000 hits per day free (sandbox)Then £1 for 2.5k – 10k hitsOr partner with us?
No reservation of downstream usage rights
wishlist
Performance
• Tube performance indicators• Real travel time through London bus networ
Dashboards
Transport Buzz
• Transport data is one side of the story
• But how do people experience this• TransportBuzz (beta): web app
developed to explore this• Stores and analyses transport related
tweets• About 5% of these are geolocated
We’re hiring
• Lots of ideas of what to do next• Looking for developers:– Ruby + server-side;–Web design + front-end;– Experience of transport indy
• Flexible: PT / FT; temp / perm
Talk to us!
Dave@davidmountain
Jonathan@madprof
Harry@harry_wood
Tom@themadwort
Emer@emercoleman
transportapi.com
@transportapi